this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight the karole of ira's outbreak could be declared a global health emergency the world health organization is meeting this hour in geneva and it's due to announce its decision suit it comes as the total number of cases approaches $8000.00 despite widespread lockdowns and public screenings the

virus is now in all mainland regions of china. also coming up on this breaks it even count down to departure the u.k. finally leaves the european union on friday night but that's only the start we'll take a look at the year of tough challenges that lies ahead before the u.k. can finally put the brakes behind and could this unassuming village become the capital of a future palestinian state status what might happen under president trump's mideast peace plan and we'll hear from residents in that village who called the idea of a night to me. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us the world health organization is meeting at this hour to decide whether or not the. of the corona virus should be

declared a global health emergency now the spread of the virus is fueling fears of a global pandemic let's take a look now at where things stand with this virus strain about 8000 people 8000 cases have been confirmed worldwide the majority of them are in china every province of mainland china china now has at least one confirmed case so far 170 people have died from the virus now all of those cases are inside china the virus has now been transmitted and carried to $22.00 countries around the world and among the latest are germany india and the philippines. in many parts of china this is the new normal very few people on the streets and usually crowded public transport system old but empty like here in shanghai.

every passenger is stopped. and every passenger screened for signs of the coronavirus. high quality i think it's fine temperature was taken both getting on and off the train everyone has a mask on i feel relieved. it might look like a country grinding to a halt but this is china's response to a mass public health emergency. or assassin like this the government can cure the virus this time the infected cases are increasing these days as well as the number of deaths but i still trust the government. that will have this as a good other. elsewhere a lack of basic necessities and information a roading confidence in the author artes in hong kong people have been queuing since 2 am hoping to buy face masks warning the hong kong government should do like macos and say every resident can only buy 10 pieces that way every single hong kong person could have a face mask to wear right. as

a 2nd plane load of repatriated japanese nationals touched down in tokyo because some to wonder what this type of outbreak could look like if it happened during the olympics here in july. we take it as a wakeup call for us to take precautions against an outbreak like this especially to what the olympics feel like i'm like yes to pan is naive i think japan should step up matches. in south korea the government is building a containment facility for those infected people here feel for their safety. what they get the governor and minister should come here and try to find a point of compromise. what are they doing of bringing troops here i mean are we to battle this is such nonsense. they're really creating a mood of fear would you who would be. in south korea as in many other countries

some residents feel the government's response to the crisis has lacked the apparent intensity and clarity of china's. i don't for more now i'm joined by ian jones he is a biologist at the university of reading in england it's good to have you on the program in the world health organization they're meeting right now shortly whether they consider this to be a global health emergency what exactly would that mean in practical terms if they were to declare a global health emergency. kits to sensually an action cold governments to improve national security had boundaries that old as of countries and the recommendation they have no ability to insist on it but it's the recommendations are health authorities to prepare for an uptick in the number of patients which is suffering from this infection and for example improve the numbers of acute that's

that may be required. we know that china is implementing strict measures we've got multiple countries evacuating their citizens from china is this the right approach to stop the virus from spreading. it is the right approach but i think you have to except with the numbers up at 8000 and every province showing now the presence of the virus i think you have to accept that it's it's not actually going to stop the virus and this is most likely i think to become a pandemic which will trickle out from the center of china an effective effect most of the world and what does it mean then for the the danger level of this virus and how does it compare for example with the common flu virus yes so luckily though the transmission of this fire a subpoena is to be more efficient for example the pathogenicity is

lower and so at the moment the pathogenicity rates would indicate a death rate of around about 2 percent which is still unacceptably high that's about 10 times higher than seasonal influenza and something quite close to spanish influenza which occurred at the beginning of the last century so it's a dangerous disease but it i don't think we need to be alarmed about city can be managed within the abilities of national health care systems and within the abilities of health care systems are you talking about doctors being able to treat patients even in this period of time that we're in right now where there is no vaccine. yes treatments of the moment is very much the stabilization of an individual who has pneumonia and so getting in through a difficult period where they find breathing not efficient in the future as you

mentioned and maybe a vaccine i would suggest perhaps within the next 3 to 6 months we'll see at least an experimental vaccine become available but i really mean in treatment that there needs to be the number of acute care available for the likely number of people who are going to require hospitalization. in jones' viral exist at the university of reading joining us tonight and we appreciate your insights thank you thank you. well here's some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world the u.s. has imposed sanctions on iran's nuclear agency and its top official washington says the atomic energy organization of iran breached uranium and reach enrichment limits with the help of its head ali akbar salehi iran says the same sions show washington's quote despair vowing there'd be no impact on its nuclear program

a nurse has been arrested in southern germany on suspicion of poisoning 5 premature babies with morphine investigators found an oral syringe containing breast milk and morphine in the woman's walker at university hospital she denies the charges doctors do not expect the infants to suffer any lasting harm in sweden thieves have broken into a stockholm art gallery and stolen at least 10 sculptures by the spanish surrealist artist salvador dali the sculptures are valued at between $20.50 a year words each and were on loan from switzerland it appears i.d. documents that would help the thieves sell the stolen they were not taken. tomorrow friday the u.k. will officially leave the european union and that begins an 11 month transition period that will include tough trade talks britain will stay in the e.u.'s economic

framework until the end of this year while the 2 sides the u.k. and the e.u. try to thrash out a trade deal despite the british government's vallance to get an agreement before the transition period ends the e.u. says that the time span is too short and it hears a chaotic new deal exit new year's for next year. all right joining me now is my colleague. in london good evening to you barbara so here we are breaks it in the u.k. about to leave the european union what have you been hearing there in the u.k. since you were wrong. a london just walked past and said tell them all we are so embarrassed now that's the view of course off the europhiles the people who like the european union and like europe and among them you hear

frustration people are resigned they say we couldn't prevent it we missed so many opportunities during the reign of treason may then you have those who just show fed up and cleverly boris johnson has marise purged the word breck's it from his government to the e.u. task force is now the new word for what used to be the brics it ministry and then of course you have those who feel they are the winners of the situation the brics in tears and they are more or less jubilant we talked to some people today let's hear what they had to say. sovereignty back and have a lot more control i think that's the one thing that's what we're really going to get from at the moment we're very disappointed. you know we're being followed while the country is being you know misled into this decision so it's a sad time there's nothing we can control sadly about so it's done so i think we

need to try and move forward and see what happens to our best thing we've purchased i had a sort of or slave trade show that should really go it's been a long time and it's been very bitter and i think you know you have to move on and i think everybody is going to try and do that you know from the government to all sorts of institutions they think is cross fingers crossed moving on means some tough trade talks between the u.k. and the european union this year barbara what hurdles why i'm still. moving on is not going to be easy that much is clear how much ever boris johnson is trying to talk the trade negotiations down and says oh it's going to be quick and it's going to be easy because what we want is a canada style a simple trade agreement bought britain is so close to the european union and the european union does not britain want to undercut its industries as so therefore

there is going to be a battle about what the e.u. called level playing field that is sticking to the rules of the european union not giving state aid to industries for instance and not undercutting the this social norms that are at environmental norms the climate norms that are now emerging and strengthening so those are going to be the main what britain wants is a tariff free x. is quota free access to the european market bought that they are going to have. pay a price for that in the sense they have to stick to european rules and that is going to be war at the negotiating table interesting and you have to wonder about what's going to happen inside the u.k. we have to remind ourselves that in that breaks at referendum a majority of scottish voters voted to stay in the european union so how much of

a threat does break now pose to the unity of the united kingdom. it's a big threat and all contractors here if you look at the british papers are quite unified in that they say that this is now beginning to emerge in northern ireland has voted had voted against bracks it opinion and wales has completely shifted in a majority now is against breaks it because people are going to fear the consequences and particularly as you mentioned scotland there was a tussle for instance about the scottish parliament keeping up the european flag in front of storm and and just sort of showing the showing the european blue and star you fleg continuing to do so and the pinion poles now showed that there is a small pot a majority for a 2nd independence referendum it's only 51 to 49 percent bought this is sort of

work in progress if you look to the s. and p. the scottish national party has really fostering this and saying we never wanted this overwhelmingly voted to stay in and now we're going to force london into a referendum so there are stormy times ahead for the british government here in london it could be in the future the 2nd break up we will see a corresponding story force this breaks even in london barbara thank you. well they don't use u.k. corresponded very good mass she went to edinburgh to take the political temperature of the sky it's. more than 70 percent voted to remain in the e.u. . as did most members of the wild once. these hardy

winter ultra swimmers a staunch supporters of. and they're furious that scotland is being dragged out of you. that if you need nurture and feeling that will be turned out of the e.u. . with her consent tree and it's horrible and says what oh sod off england and unfortunately born in england. yes give us our independence he can we can look after ourselves the s.n.p. is scotland's leading political party it's calling for open borders with england scotland's top trading partner as well as an independent scotland rejoining the group we have had a lot of extremely generous and friendly overtures from other european governments saying that if things pile britain leaves the european union and scotland takes political control of the sort of affairs then scotland would be welcome in the

european union but that would require a new referendum on scottish independence something the conservative government in london is keen to avoid. that referendum was a once in a lifetime once in a generation event that happened only 5 years ago rather than spending all our time as politicians going over and over having referendum after a from them after referendum well i don't see any but the scottish nationalists are not about to back down. protests in glasgow have renewed calls for independence. the conservative government may have a majority in the union parliament westminster but its mandate stops at the scottish border it's a challenge for the prime minister and a challenge for the conservative government every time they say no a few more people say yes. the strong will and plenty of stamina that's what the

scottish nationalists need to push their cause forward perhaps the wind to swim this can provide some inspiration. u.s. president donald trump's recently revealed middle east peace plan contains many contentious points and includes the future of the city of jerusalem both israel and the palestinians claim the city as their capital but transplant effectively hands control of all of jerusalem to israel what would be left for the palestinians appears to be a village our next report now from kabul decide on the eastern else skirts of jerusalem this concrete wall blocks the view of the real dome of the rock for people living behind it in. israel built the wall in the early 2000 at the height of the 2nd palestinian intifada. since then has been cut off from jerusalem this is one of the few spots and. can see

jerusalem's old city just 2 kilometers away. out of his village but he dismisses trump's proposal to make it the capital of a future palestinian state with this is a part from jerusalem. the capital of palestine. the mayor says was discussed as a possible capital back in the 1990 s. when there was hope of peace and no walls yasser arafat's even commissioned this building for a future parliament. today i would use is poor there are few jobs for young people. the only bright spot is the i'll could university. the school has a solid reputation and some 14000 young people from across the west bank study here

mahmoud and i'm are both studying medicine exams are coming up but right now it's trumps peace plan doesn't everyone's mind. and i think there's always the possibility of a compromise even in this conflict. but it shouldn't be the palestinians who are always having to make concessions. this is been al that for generations of you can't just give it up. but the students are also critical of their own leaders they say of course trump is only concerned about israel's well being but they say it's also not right that there haven't been any direct talks between israel and the palestinians since 2014 and there is only one path to peace well and that is negotiations. welcome to the new capital of palestine that's the tongue in cheek greeting at the bob shop they say here that humor is more useful than hope and

that no palestinian was really expecting peace from a plan put forward by donald trump. begin in this it's important for us that peace talks take place on the basis of international laws. under trump's plan this border wall would separate the 2 capitals the us president calls it a vision people here call it a nightmare. last year more than 80 municipalities in poland declared themselves and i'm quoting here l g b t ideology free zones we're now a gay activists is fighting back my colleague peter vola dollars here peter 1st of all explain because i'm trying to get my head around this what is in. the ology free zone you said that there is about 80 villages cities in some cases entire provinces that have basically pledged to not encourage the tolerance of gay people now what does that mean well that means they're not going to provide avenues for bt

to express themselves going to be no pride parades they're not to do anything to try to raise awareness of issues that could be taught in school. it's important to note that these are not lost i mean the resolutions are more like they're clear ations of intent and the such they're pretty too fast but that doesn't mean that by like the mind police at work you know we're. definitely still stings right and so this is really hurt the community that's already been under threat in the poland. and the point here is really to put the community back into the closet kind of out of mind out of sight i think and this artist who is these activists i should say who's fighting back something about him yeah it is name is bartz the chef ski he launched this counter campaign intent to draw attention to the plight of the people that are affected by this so he created a realistic looking sign that reads. have them pose in front of the municipalities

they come from. basically he's not going to allow these people to you know just simply be shoved back across and we spoke with him earlier today and asked him what the message is that he's trying to get across. who we are not and i though it's not an ideology the. half a mile area. of the new law of if not an ideology hold the hand of the. it's not i. want to feel secure in your seat in your. veins we need to show the people. we are living with area that we are. beings not the demons are the politicians who want to show us the coming. this is shocking because this week you know we have to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp which is located in nazi occupied poland and now

we're talking about. sexual minority that is not wanted in these cities and towns was the situation for. people right i mean as i again it's not a law it's not state sponsored but it is something that is supported by the ruling party the right wing nationals conservative party there that basically just last year when we saw in national elections ran on a platform to that was very much anti gay rights they have very strong backing by strong powerful catholic leaders by nationalist groups by state media even. so they've all like come together and help in this picture of the. dangerous it's a they call it an ideology right it's imported from the decadent liberal west and basically it's a threat to the traditional catholic family unity that really has helped create an environment of open hostility in some cases even outright violence against people

directly come under attack we talked to the chef the again he told us you know it's gotten so bad that some of his friends have decided to leave poland they're going to germany france u.k. . just to be able to live a life without fear i mean these images right here it's hard to believe that that's in the middle of europe but what about reaction from outside of poland we go about 30 seconds yet the european parliament is strongly condemned this is obviously a violation of article 21 of the e.u. charter which states you know any discrimination based on something like sexual orientation is not allowed. the question is what are they going to do are they going to cut funding poland is one of the biggest or is the biggest recipient of e.u. funding. we'll see what happens right after that you can walk the walk and talk the talk of the same zone features always thank you thanks much. this is the

news and these are our top stories the corona virus has been confirmed in all mainland regions of china and the latest being the autonomous region of tibet the world health organization is deciding this whether to declare a global health emergency the virus has killed 170 people in china and infected 7800. u.s. border control agents have released footage of what they say is the one just ever tunnel used by smugglers between mexico and the u.s. they say the tunnel is 1313 meters long some 400 meters longer than the previous tunnel record holder. a nurse has been arrested in germany on suspicion of poisoning 5 premature babies with more feet investigators found in the oral syringe containing breast milk and morphine in the woman's locker at only university hospital she has denied the charges doctors say they don't expect the

babies to suffer any lasting harm. in sweden thieves have broken into a stockholm art gallery and stolen at least 10 sculptures by salvador dali the sculptures by the spanish surrealist artist are valued at between 20 and 50000 euros each they were on loan from switzerland it's this is e w news from berlin for more you can follow us on twitter at g.w. news you can visit our website at www dot com. we'll be back at the top of the hour with more than.

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